I'm thrilled to present our latest paper about the trophic ecology and behavior of sea stars (Asteroidea) and brittle stars (Ophiuroidea) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. doi.org/10.1016/j.ds... It was a great collaboration with a team from 🇪🇸🇳🇱🇩🇪🇵🇹 and 🇦🇹 (incl. @bokamero.bsky.social). #SciArt

Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.

Our paper on how to use the spatial scaling of community phylogenetic uniqueness came out during the summer but we haven't posted it yet:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An incredible discovery that challenges our assumptions about how complex life can thrive in the deepest and more remote places in the ocean.

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to join our deep-sea ecology team at @icmcsic.bsky.social? We seek a PhD student to study macroecology and effects of climate change in abyssal seascapes. With focus on sea cucumber communities. Please disseminate, and if interested please contact us www.icm.csic.es/en/calls/phd...

From tiny worms to giant squid: New global database reveals the hidden power of body size in the ocean phys.org/news/2025-05... #science #ocean #biodiversity #marinelife #invertebrate

Ecological shifts persist decades after a deep-sea mining test in the abyssal Pacific. www.icm.csic.es/en/news/new-...

Starting the @oikosfinland.bsky.social Ecology & Evolution Conference in Jyväskylä after a great workshop on HSMC modelling yesterday. Can't think of a better way to start my new job at ICM-CSIC! 🐠🌳🪲🦐

Hunt the Jabberwock, Defend the Warren, Save the Forest

The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession for heroes and heroic teachers.

D&D 5e.

www.dmsguild.com/product/5056...

It'd be soo cool if we both get it! 🤞🫰

After 10 great years at @noc.ac.uk, and 13 in the UK, I am pleased to announce that I will start a new position at ICM-CSIC in Barcelona next month! see: icm.csic.es/en. Excited to continue diving into #deepsea research, with old and new colleagues, now from home..!

Our new article out in Science Advances today! 🌊 In Europe we have protected 1% of our deep-sea biodiversity from bottom-contact fishing, but our analysis revealed that 3,500 hours of fishing still occurred within these protected areas. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Erik presenting his paper at dsbs17. Starting to understand who lives where and why at abyssal planes.

w @andresbaselga.bsky.social @annamet.bsky.social y.social @divaamon.bsky.social

This means these fauna, mostly soft corals, likely have a lower recolonisation capacity to the impacts of Deep-Sea Mining than we previously thought. But we need more knowledge on life-history traits, larval typologies & behaviour in abyssal seascapes to fully understand these processes!

Do abyssal species that grow on polymetallic nodules have more restricted dispersal than fauna not depending on this resource? Contrasting distance-decay patterns in community similarity across the NE Pacific basin suggest they do! See our new study doi.org/10.1111/geb.... on time for #17DSBS!

Starting the #17DSBS! Pleased to be in Hong Kong, and to write my first post here, at last..!